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...ten a fatal disease, says Porcu, noting previously described treatments have been only half as effective, generating a complete response rate of only 50 percent. Porcu says the therapy has some limitations, noting that kidney rejection did occur in those patients with PTLD in the transplanted organ. Still, t...

... understanding of how cells communicate (otherwise described as the neuronal code) in the brain's hippocampus, and form human memories. Buzsaki has also won a five-year $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for further research into how brain cells talk to each other and form memories. Ju...

...ical features of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease described in this paper are consistent with previous descriptions, say the authors. "We hope that the detailed analysis of the early psychiatric and neurological features of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in this paper may help with early and accurate recog...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Using what might be described as a biological machine, University of Florida and Finnish researchers have demonstrated an experimental process for drug purification that one day could speed the production and decrease the cost of prescription drugs. The researchers created anti...

...article. "In past decades, behavioral medicine was described in part by its differences from traditional clinical psychology and psychiatry. However, the future of the field may involve its unique ability to integrate the assessment and management of matters of mental and physical health in medical care." Some...

...od relationship with the surrogate, and no mothers described any major conflict or hostility between the commissioning couple and the surrogate. The concern about the commissioning mother's feelings about the surrogate's involvement with the child seems unfounded, with 90% reporting no anxieties about this as...

...uman Reproduction and Embryology, who have already described the proposals as "disastrous". The Federation represents fertility specialists in 55 countries*. In a meeting yesterday (Tuesday 2 July) in Vienna the Executive Committee of IFFS discussed the legislation by the Lower House of the Italian Parliament...

...et and instructional video covered the same topics described by the clinician in the group of patients receiving intensive professional training in stress management techniques. Jacobsen found that of the three groups, the self-guided patients using the instructional booklet and video showed the most improveme...

...g for an AD patient was tiring, while half or more described it as demanding (67 percent) or frustrating (51 percent). "Alzheimer's disease not only has a devastating toll on the patient, but also on the caregiver, greatly impairing their quality of life," says Jean Georges, Executive Director, Alzheimer Eu...

... research. Reporters are encouraged to attend the described talks. Additional information can be obtained through follow-up with the presenting scientists or by contacting the NIAID press office at U.S. (301) 402-1663. Unless otherwise indicated, please delay release of the information contained in the summa...

... learning in the ambulatory care setting have been described as inefficient, variable and unpredictable. Inserting medical student teaching into that environment is different than having a captive audience at the patient's bedside and medical educators are continually evaluating ways to assure that doctors-to-...

..., or plan for serious future illness. Instead they described a "one day at a time," "what will be will be" appr...ay the authors. "The elderly people we interviewed described a world view that does not easily accommodate such advance planning." Despite some limitations, this...

...d by autism. Aman said individuals with autism are described as an "orphan" population because their relatively small number has resulted in little research being conducted in the past on the disorder. However, significant government support for autism research is helping to end those years of neglect, he said...

...itional side effects. This innovative approach is described in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. This new approach evolved out of a similar system, now entering phase-2 human trials, that combines gene therapy with radiation therapy. "The radiation therapy approach appears to be qui...

...suppress tumor development." The new findings are described in two recent articles in Molecular and Cellular Biology (April and July 2002). RA belongs to a class of compounds known as retinoids that play key roles in regulating gene transcription and, therefore, govern multiple functions in the body, such ...

...fully executed with surgical precision," have been described in textbooks, he added. Such research is particularly challenging because of the complexity of the didemnins' structures. To turn a natural product into a candidate for cancer treatment, one must first understand how the various piece of the structur...

...ium, which will feature almost a dozen papers, are described below. Measuring blood sugar with a beam of light: Mark A. Arnold, Ph.D., of the University of Iowa, and Gary W. Small, Ph.D., of Ohio University, will describe advances toward developing a device that monitors glucose levels by shining a beam ...

...ey took a half dose of almonds (average 37 grams) described as a "handful" of almonds. In the last month, they ate a low-saturated fat, whole-wheat muffin as a daily snack. The muffin snack served as the control diet because it had about the same amount of calories, protein and saturated and polyunsaturated...

...ion with autistic behaviour. However, the children described by Wakefield and colleagues had symptomatic gastrointestinal disease. They also cannot exclude the possibility that severe gastrointestinal disease may be associated with the development of autism in certain individuals. However, their results indic...

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